LoginFamily of Earth and Sky: Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the World
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These enjoyable stories from the oral traditions of indigenous cultures were chosen by Elder, coeditor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing (LJ 3/1/90), and Berkeley English professor Wong as a complement to Western nature writing. Unlike the nature essay, these stories reflect not so much the environmental consciousness of solitary writers as the close, even mysterious, connection between tribal human communities and their homeplaces and native animals and plants. The stories in anthology are divided into three categories-tales of origins, including creation stories; animal tales and tales of human/animal transformations; and t
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
Release date: 1 August 1994
ISBN-10 : 0807085286 | ISBN-13: 9780807085288
Release date: 1 August 1994
ISBN-10 : 0807085286 | ISBN-13: 9780807085288
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